MY THEME OF THE WEEK : THE HEART

My theme for this week is: The heart

This morning I picked card 61 from my Leonie Zieverink set, which says:

‘Your heart knows all the answers. Your inner world is your HEART. The outside world is your understanding. To practice the difference between the two, you can ask a question to your heart. Close your eyes and ask a question. After a while you will know if the answers come directly from your heart or from your understanding. The art is to trust life and what your heart tells you. It takes courage to remain being you.

Lovely words don’t you agree? Remember this sentence well: ‘it takes courage to remain being you’.

So I just wonder how many of us out there actually do this. I try very hard to remind myself of this every day. It is so easy in today’s fast lifestyle to actually stop making decisions from the heart, and just take decisions, which are purely based on ‘what people expect of you’ and how you are supposed to behave.

Why do we do this? And then why do we take decisions that we basically know are not right for us personally? Is it because we are virtually afraid to speak out and be different? Or is it that we just are lazy and take the easy way out. Just conforming to the expected.

There are a lot of answers to such questions. A lot.

I think that if people following their own intuition and their own heart then probably the world much actually be a much nicer place. Pushing our own personal ego completely to one side and taking a decision or making a choice based on what our heart tells us. Brushing aside the words ‘fear’ and ‘power’.

The heart is fascinating. As a muscle in the body it forms and beats at a very early stage in foetal development. It is our lifeline. The life force within, so why on earth do we ignore it so much. Without a beating heart death occurs. Even today, people think that the heart is mystical, they are right, it is.

Just stop right now and have a think about this! When was the last time you really listened to your heart. By this I don’t mean following the beats, is it regular or irregular, do you sometimes miss a beat (which is perfectly normal and nothing to worry about) but really listening and also hearing and far more important, what it actually says to you.

You can almost compare it with that ‘little voice within’. The voice that you hear inside that either warns you not to do something, or tells you that you are taking and making the right decision or not. That little voice that reminds you that you have been in this situation before, in this place before: a gentle reminder.

A lot of us often find ourselves in a sort of rut. We do things almost automatically, we have to, and society demands this of us. But why? Why not take a deep breath and have a think about things before you plunge forwards blindly, just doing what is expected of you.

It does not have to be something huge, something major. Begin small.

Today ask yourself, what would you like to change if you could? What would you alter in your daily routine, which involved you really listening to your inner self? It could be something really simple.

What small action would you take if you were offered the chance to either improve something, change something, do something differently or not do anything? Have a real think about this. It is important.

It is important to listen to your own inner voice. It literally has your best interest at heart. Slow down, take time and really listen. There is a huge difference between the words ‘listening’ and actually ‘hearing’.

Give your heart some love, do it right now! Why wait until another moment. When you have read these words, take a break. Just literally stop what you are doing and ask your heart a question. Close your eyes, breath in and out for a few moments and then ask the question. The most important question. The one you have been toying around with for quite some time. Then sit back and allow your heart to listen. It may not answer right a way, but during the course of the day you will hear some words in your mind and think, yes, that is the answer and act upon it.

Remember this week’s theme is YOUR HEART!